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Some Unique Places to Be Married or Have Your Event
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The
River Boat Ride on Weeki Wachee River.
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Silver Springs River Cruises |
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Glass Bottom Boats offer passengers an unparalleled view of
underwater life in the 99.8% pure waters of the Silver River. Our boats,
with U.S. Coast Guard licensed captains, will take you on an enchanting
tour of the seven major spring formations at the headwaters. One spring, Fish Reception Hall, is home to dozens of species of fish as well as alligators, clams, crawfish, shrimp, snails and six different kinds of turtles, all amidst the backdrop of tiny fossilized shells from 70 million years ago. Peer through the glass and crystal clear water for views that only a scuba diver could have. You’ll be comfortably seated, and covered from the sun and weather. 
Fort King River Cruise carries you through Silver Springs’ 10,000
year history. Interactive exhibits and displays include a working
archaeological dig site, Seminole Indian village, the 1830s Fort King
Army stockade, a late 1880s riverboat dock and train depot, and an
authentic Florida pioneer “Cracker” homestead. 
Lost River Voyage transports guests back in time to wild Florida as
it was thousands of years ago—untouched and untamed. Riverbanks are
lined with towering bald cypress trees, some more than 500 years old.
See alligators, turtles, heron, osprey, and other wildlife basking and
feeding in their natural habitat. |
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The Beresford
Lady is an authentic side wheel paddle boat that will take you back in time on
one of its tours along the historic St. Johns River!
St Johns River Boat Tours
The (Said to Be) Haunted Island Hotel in Cedar Key
Castillo
de San Marcos National Monument, Florida
Fort
Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Fort
Matanzas National Monument, Florida
Southernmost
Point Marker - Key West, Florida
Statue
of Christ in the Abyss
This 30-foot tall replica of a Mediterranean Sea statue is located in John
Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, just off Key Largo.
Gazebo
at Edna Pierce Lockett Estate in Florida
Saint Stanislaus
Catholic Church
LaGrange
Church and Cemetery
St.
Gabriel's Episcopal Church
St.
Luke's Episcopal Church of Courtenay
Built: 1888
Location: 5555 N. Tropical Trail, Merritt Island
Heritage Village
More than 28 historic structures and features, some dating back to the 19th century, include a school, church, sponge warehouse, railroad depot and store as well as a variety of historic homes.
Anclote
Key is the largest of a collection of small islands, known as the Anclote Keys,
found three miles offshore from Tarpon Springs and the mouth of the Anclote
River. The islands were named Anclote, Spanish for anchor, due to the method
Spanish sailing vessels would use to navigate the shallow channels in the area.
The navigation was accomplished by attaching a line to a kedge anchor, dropping
the anchor at a distance in the desired direction of travel, and then using the
line to pull the boat to the anchor. Although the name Anclote appears on maps
dating as far back as 1715, it wasn’t until the mid 1860’s that the area was
permanently settled.
Cape Florida
Lighthouse was once
the site of violence, treachery, and bloodshed galore. However, the 18th century
found the beaches of Key Biscayne the happy hunting grounds of marauding
pirates, wreckers, and bands of Indians. One especially notorious pirate, Black
Caesar, terrorized this coast until he was caught and hanged in 1718. Over these
precarious shores the rays from the 17 lanterns in the Cape Florida Lighthouse
first shone on Dec. 17, 1825, but not without difficulties that foreshadowed the
drama to come.
Dry
Tortugas
The
St. Johns River
Amelia
Island Lighthouse
Amelia
Island is the northernmost barrier island on Florida’s Atlantic coast. The St.
Mary’s River slowly empties into the Atlantic between Amelia Island and
Georgia’s Cumberland Island to the north and serves as the curvaceous portion of
the border between the neighboring states. Fernandina Beach is Amelia Island’s
largest town, and it still seems locked in the enchantment and charm of the
Victorian era. The island’s acres of marshlands add to the tranquil setting, but
if you ask around a little you can quickly learn about the island’s scandalous
past and just perhaps the unique origin of the Amelia Island Lighthouse
The
banners of five nations, Spain, France, England, the Confederate States of
America, and the United States, have flown over the city of Pensacola, giving
rise to its nickname, The City of Five Flags. Pensacola is Florida’s second
oldest city, and has the deepest bay on the Gulf Coast. The mouth of the bay is
bounded by Santa Rosa Island to the east and Perdido Key to the west. To guard
the entrance, Spain established Fort Barrancas atop a 60-foot bluff on the
mainland opposite the bay’s mouth. Soon after the United States took control of
Florida from Spain in 1821, the federal government, recognizing the importance
of Pensacola’s harbor, moved to establish both a naval yard and lighthouse
there.
St.
Augustine, the oldest permanent European settlement on the North American
continent, is affectionately called the Old City. Don Juan Ponce de Leon
discovered La Florida, the “Land of Flowers," in 1513 for Spain. Roughly fifty
years later, Spain made a serious attempt at colonizing Florida, when Don Pedro
Menendez de Aviles was dispatched to the area. Menendez arrived off the Florida
coast on August 28, 1565, the Feast Day of St. Augustine, and soon the fledgling
colony of St. Augustine was established.
In
the 1830s, Apalachicola was Florida’s largest port, and cotton was the reason
why. From the city, the Apalachicola river winds inland for over three hundred
miles to Columbus, Georgia. Some fifteen steamboats once plied the river,
transporting the fluffy white gold grown in eastern Alabama and western Georgia
to the Gulf. Once it reached Apalachicola, the cotton was compressed into bales
and then lightered across shallow Apalachicola Bay to West Pass, located between
St. Vincent and St. George Islands. The cotton bales were then transferred to
three-masted ships, which transported the crop to mills located in New England
and Europe. In 1836, 50,000 bales were shipped from Apalachicola, which by that
time was the third largest cotton port on the Gulf Coast, behind New Orleans and
Mobile.
Author
Stephen Crane published his masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage in 1895,
three decades after the conclusion of the divisive conflict centerpieced in his
book. In 1896, an editor provided Crane an opportunity to experience battle
firsthand by covering the budding rebellion in Cuba. While en route to the
island aboard the 123-foot S. S. Commodore, which was carrying load of
firearms, Crane was shipwrecked off the Floridian Coast near Daytona Beach
during a gale. Abandoning the sinking vessel, Crane, the captain, and two
sailors, set out in a small lifeboat. Providently, the lighthouse at Mosquito
Inlet marked the distant coast for the hapless quartet. Still, the group had to
endure twenty-seven hours of frantic rowing and frequent bailing before they
were able to bring their craft safely to shore. Crane’s story on the Cuban
conflict would have to wait, but the harrowing hours spent in the lifeboat
provided an alternate firsthand experience that would develop into his most
successful short story “The Open Boat”.
Roughly
twenty-five miles south of Tallahassee is found Florida’s Big Bend region where
the state’s Gulf coastline changes from a north-south direction to an east-west
direction. A river empties into the Gulf at this point, and it was here that an
early settlement was established by the Spanish. The founding date of the
settlement likely occurred on the feast day of St. Marks, as that name was
applied to both the town and the river. In 1818, Andrew Jackson captured St.
Marks from the Spanish, and three years later control of Florida was officially
transferred from Spain to the United States.